"British Infantry Firing Line Review" Topic

"During the Napoleonic Wars Britain was primarily a naval power, and her biggest influence on the struggle to avoid French domination of Europe was to provide vast loans and subsidies to allow other European countries to resist. However when British infantry did fight in the field their discipline and tenacity were much admired. If circumstances allowed, the favoured British tactic was to form up on one side of a rise in the ground with the enemy on the other. The enemy, in column formation, would then advance up the slope towards the unseen British troops, and as they reached the crest they would find the British drawn up in a firing line, two ranks deep, ready to give an immediate volley from every gun. The surprise, and efforts to reform into a line, plus the dead and wounded, would cause great confusion in the enemy, and the British would then charge with the bayonet, hopefully sending the enemy into a confused retreat. Although not always possible, this tactic often proved very effective, and allowed success against superior numbers…."

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Armand

Many casualties there….

Armand

We need far more casualties alas.

Trying to recreate Waterloo for that massive diorama, these three are a drop in the ocean. I try to avoid evisceration or dismemberment/decapitation/disembowelment and that is just for the horses……as for the humans, let us keep it like these three figures I guess.

But we cannot avoid it. Waterloo needs dead humans and horses heaped high to be realistic. They are hard to find (or create)

Those looks good….

Armand